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(Guest post from Leah Hostetler, Senior Product Manager, Watson Analytics )
Early in 2014, IBM announced The Watson Group and its $1B commitment to the next generation of cognitive computing. I’d like to invite you to register for an analytics product inspired by the work of this group.... [Continue Reading]

When I am not moonlighting as a Product Marketing Manager at IBM, I can be found studying for the Master of Science in Predictive Analytics. As I traverse the coursework, work with data and apply theoretical data mining and analytics concepts to projects, I sometimes find myself in a predicament.
I am by no means a programmer (at least... [Continue Reading]

Now you can use all the power of R without writing a single line of code and using an intuitive user interface. Sounds pretty cool, right?
For those that don’t know much about R, it is a free programming language widely used by statisticians and data miners for developing all kind of data analysis. It is not a secret R programming... [Continue Reading]

Canadian Business published a story of the innovative trend toward low-cost orbital imagery that is transforming business intelligence (BI) use across farming, forestry, and retail. As the production cost and weigh steadily decline, we should see 750 new nano and micro-satellites orbiting the earth in 2020, each no larger than a shoe... [Continue Reading]

The global economic crisis, which seemingly began with the U.S. housing market’s nose-dive in late 2007, continues to choke the world economy. As we all have come to know, this financial meltdown has served as a jack-hammered catalyst for governments and corporations today to re-evaluate their risk management practices – assuming,... [Continue Reading]

Social Media Command Centers and Reputation Risk — What they are, and how they will shape the future of analytics
“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.” -- Warren Buffett
Wells Fargo.... [Continue Reading]

[Guest post from Eric Sall, VP - WW Marketing, IBM Business Analytics]
Can small organizations really benefit from big data? Yes they can and yes they do. CPSI and TruBridge, providers of healthcare information solutions, are introducing rural and community hospitals to the wonders of big data and predictive analytics.
Click here to... [Continue Reading]

Amongst the variety of features released as a part of Cognos Business Intelligence 10.2.2, one key element on which we focused was to make Visualizations easier via the introduction of properties directly in Report Studio and Cognos Workspace Advanced. As a result, you can now make formatting changes to extensible visualizations directly in the... [Continue Reading]

As the number and severity of major data breaches continues to increase, the IBM Insight keynote speech by Sandy Bird, IBM Fellow and Chief Technology Officer for IBM Security Systems, was especially timely. In his presentation, “Finding and Stopping Attackers with Big Data Analytics,” Bird addressed the dangers of attackers using... [Continue Reading]

Pythagoras and the Pythagorean School opined that 3 is the noblest of all numbers. I know IBM likes the number a lot. There’s an employee challenge to describe our week in 3 words, for example. Sometimes I buck trends, but in the case of using the number 3, I’m all for it. I’ve already written about the 3 words you can use to... [Continue Reading]

“If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing”
-- W. Edward Deming
Guest blog post from Dwij Chatterjee, Market Manager, Business Analytics, IBM Software Gtroup
Analytics success is defined by the ability to ask the right questions – both of the data you are using and of the people who... [Continue Reading]

Empowered customers have set the bar high for satisfaction
Let me start with a story. I have a mobile phone connection that I use for business and personal communication. I use a good amount of data and am very active socially I communicate with over 30 of my friends and am constantly on social networks like Facebook. I recently had some... [Continue Reading]

Guest post by Forsyth Alexander, Content Strategist, Business Analytics
Today at IBM Insight2014, serendipity was in full force. At breakfast this morning, I sat next to an IBM customer. When I told him was an Information and Analytics Group content strategist who works on content for IBM® Cognos Business Intelligence (among other... [Continue Reading]

(Guest post by IBM Product Marketing Manager, David Clement)
What is F orward L ooking B usiness I ntelligence?
Over the years I’ve talked to many companies experiencing the opportunities and fascination of analyzing data to improve business performance . Today, I see ... [Continue Reading]

‘Holding out for a [BI] hero’ or so the Bonnie Tyler mega hit from the Eighties goes might just be the anthem many potential business users cry out when in need of fast, accurate, relevant insights from their data. But our BI heroes or ‘champions’ often face resistance from their business partners -- DIY bad... [Continue Reading]

Sure, we could use up a thesaurus full of adjectives telling you how great IBM software is. But there’s no substitute for hearing it directly from your fellow users. That’s why we’re happy to report that IBM customers from companies large and small will be outlining their strategies and sharing their success stories at Insight... [Continue Reading]

This year’s theme for IBM Insight is “Seize this moment.” And there has never been a better time for partners who sell to midmarket organizations to seize the moment, because the midmarket is one of the fastest growing segments for business analytics.
If you’re an IBM Business Partner selling to midsize businesses, you... [Continue Reading]

There’s an old saying that everything is bigger in Texas, and the recent Midsize Enterprise Summit (MES) was no exception. This year’s show, held at the Gaylord Texan Resort in Dallas last month, featured a stellar lineup of vendors, analysts and the best IT leaders in the midmarket. And even though I didn’t play, the golf course... [Continue Reading]

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